Business Challenge: To replace an end-of-life proprietary system, IBM Websphere, with a standardized infrastructure; rewrite and deploy business critical applications by 2012, and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Solution: SFR selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop Java applications based on open source industry standards while remaining fully supported by a trusted partner
Software: Application servers: Solaris Sparc x86; Web servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle 10i
Hardware: 6 units HP DL580 G5 for customer service, 13 units HP DL 580 G5 for catalogue, and 4 units HP DL 580 G5 for order entry
Migration Path: Migrated from IBM Websphere and Oracle WebLogic
Benefits: SFR accelerated Java deployments compared to the previous Oracle WebLogic and IBM Websphere-based system. The quality of support has improved through shorter response times from the support teams.
Business Challenge: To create a state-of-the-art middleware infrastructure for a global shipment status processing system based on industry-standard hardware, while ensuring maximum flexibility by integrating it with existing components, cost effectiveness, and scalability
Migration Path: Proprietary HP-UX operating system running on mainframe servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on industry-standard x86 servers
Solutions: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle WebLogic (for database access), Oracle 10 Database
Hardware: HP Proliant Servers
Benefits: Gained flexibility and the ability to accommodate new customer requests; saved more than 50 percent by migrating to the new base installation; realised even further cost savings when scaling the platform further to meet market demand; avoided lock-in to proprietary software licensing, hardware, and programming languages
“With Red Hat's open source subscription model, we can scale up and down easily without worrying about price per CPU creating unexpected extra costs. By migrating our Shipment Status Processing installation to JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have saved around fifty percent compared to competitive software license models.”
-- Antonio Mastrolorito, Chief IT Architect, Lufthansa Cargo AG
Business Challenge: For legal compliance reasons, SPARBANK must ensure high availabillity for mission-critical applications. The bank also required access to professional support and services for its application platform.
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Service Bus
Migration Path: JBoss.org community project to JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Benefits: Guaranteed high availability and greater flexibility of SPARBANK's mission-critical application platform
“Running mission-critical applications in a bank requires a supported platform. Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware suite offers access to a complete set of services, including industry-leading technical support, certified patches and updates, long-term maintenance policies, and software assurance. Therefore it was a natural choice to migrate from the unsupported JBoss Community project to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platform.”
-- Kenneth Larsen, development team at SPARBANK
Red Hat Advanced Business Partner: Tier 2 Consulting
Business Challenge: To provide online learning materials and assessment tools virtually to dental students through a flexible, secure and cost-effective technology infrastructure with optimal functionality
Migration Path: The application was developed from the ground up using JBoss
Solution: The IVIDENT project (International Virtual Dental School, now known as UDENTE - Universal Dental E-Learning http://www.udente.org) is a flexible learning platform (FLP), conceived to deliver quality assured content and web-based education tools to dental students. The platform is built on Red Hat's open source middleware portfolio including: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Developer Studio
Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1435 and 2x Dual Core AMD
Benefits: To create an award-winning virtual experience for students, to improve the educational experience for both students and tutors, potentially improve ROI while reducing costs, to increase flexibility, interoperability and ease of maintenance.
Business Challenge: To update and consolidate the entire corporate IT infrastructure, including business-critical applications and management tools
Solution: Telecinco refreshed its hardware and software infrastructure based on a combination of solutions from Red Hat, HP, and NetApp, as well as other IT solutions certified by Red Hat and integrated by Telefónica
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Informix Dynamic Server 11, and NetApp Snapmanager
Hardware: HP Poliant DL580 G5 servers and Blade servers
Migration path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun One Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Telecinco benefits from a high-performance, highly reliable, flexible platform based on industry standards and has reduced its operating costs by 33 percent
“Our decision to migrate to Red Hat solutions has been one of the best technology decisions in recent years. The project is aligned with a wider company strategy and has put us ahead of development in the market.”
-- María Caldés, Director of Engineering and Systems, Telecinco
Customer: Siemens AG (Industry, Mobility, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions)
Industry: Logistics
Geography: HQ: Germany
Business Challenge: Create a new, highly scalable, and reliable software platform for automated address recognition, coding, and image management capable of handling hundreds of thousands of mail pieces per hour
Solution: Infrastructure Logistics' Open Reading Coding Architecture (ORCA) relies on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware foundation, orchestrating the recognition and coding of addresses and workflow of up to 700,000 mail pieces per hour by a single image management system with an availability rate of up to 99.8 percent.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Hardware: Standard x86 hardware
Benefits: Improved scalability, availability, and performance, combined with cost savings
“Wherever you live, it is likely that several letters that you have received have been read, coded, and processed for delivery by one of our systems using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as the middleware foundation.”
-- Peter Schindler, Product Manager, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions
Business Challenge: To build a scalable and highly flexible middleware infrastructure for a new Java-based customer care and marketing application based on proven database server hardware
Migration Path: Legacy IBM AS/400 client-server based application to a browser-based system developed in Java, using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Built a modern and scalable infrastructure; Realised considerable cost savings; Secured its investment in a mission-critical, future-proof infrastructure
”What’s great about JBoss Enterprise Middleware is that all the components just work together nicely. We can pick just what we need and keep the total cost of ownership much lower than with proprietary software. That also saves us a lot of time and effort when architecting the system.”
-- Uwe Wagensommer, head of IT at Glöckle direct
Business Challenge: To create self-service websites that allow LSN's customers to manage and control their financial products online, such as point-of-sale (POS) loan application and reporting services; to build a secure, flexible, scalable, and adaptable platform for the company's new core system to connect back-end applications to the websites.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Operations Network, JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS), HP Dialogue Live and VMWare.
Hardware: Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Dell PowerEdge 2950 with two quad-core 2.8 GHz CPUs per server, 32 GB RAM per server; EMC SAN storage via iSCSI.
Benefits: Operational savings of €2,250,000, increased security, flexibility, and manageability for the IT department, expanded functionality and performance and enhanced service that allows consumers to manage their financial affairs online, such as opening or closing an account or viewing credit card transactions in real time.
Customer: HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd.
Industry: Insurance
Geography: Pan India
Business Challenge: Streamline and automate manual data processing in terms of automating manual processes providing a centralized application for multiple vendors, and management for policy proposal processing, and build a web-based application that could be deployed pan India
Solution: HDFC Standard Life deployed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform along with Oracle database to implement web-based solution to improve productivity, efficiency and to drive cost out of the organization.
Software: J2EE applications running on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 and Oracle 10g Database on Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Hardware: Intel Nehalem processor-based HP Blades and Dell rack servers with two sockets
Benefits: Built enterprise class architecture which is scalable and high-performance. Improved productivity of the internal staff as well as 3rd party vendors and accelerated turnaround time on policy processing leading to faster decision making time. Serving customers effectively leading to increased customer satisfaction.
“Being a customer focused organization, serving the customer effectively is our primary goal. Red Hat with its robust, scalable, and high performance open source technology has enabled us in meeting that goal.”-- Vijay Gokarn, senior IT Manager at HDFC Standard Life insurance Company Ltd.
Customer: Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Limited (SUD Life)
Industry: Insurance
Geography: Pan India
Partner: Arion
Business Challenge: To design a Group Policy Management System that would deliver high operational efficiency, reduce operational costs and high ROI with no compromise on performance, scalability, security, and flexibility
Solution: SUD Life designed its Group Policy Management System on open source Java J2EE software infrastructure with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware solution
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, SQL Server database
Hardware: Intel xeon processor-based servers from HCL and IBM
Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs by 70 percent, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, improved business agility
“Through the use of open source J2EE technology and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have achieved nearly 70 percent savings in costs, as well as greater operational efficiencies compared to traditional approaches. The solution has also made our business agile, enabling us to react quickly to the changing business needs giving us a competitive edge.” -- Harnath Babu, head of Information Technology, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance
Business Challenge: To replace its outdated iQuest management tool and design a more reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective project management system, which could scale to meet the organization's needs and free it from proprietary vendor lock-in.
Migration Path: IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution: Designed ManageMe application running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Oracle Database, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss jBPM
Hardware: Intel processor-based x86 servers from Dell
Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, and obtained the ability to achieve 100 percent system availability
“The success of this initiative has helped us to innovate further and choose the most appropriate set of technologies for our business needs. Open source solutions in general, and Red Hat in particular, will now be adopted as the foundation of our long-term IT strategy. We are confident that Red Hat solutions will enable us to serve our customers effectively every day.” - Chella Namasivayam M., vice president and chief information officer,
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Business challenge: Needed a single, common, and flexible platform that would simplify NYSE Euronext's application development, deployment, and management processes while still meeting mission-critical requirements for reliability, performance, and scalability
Migration path: Multiple application servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and a legacy portal server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86-based servers and blades
Benefits: Experienced 50-60 percent cost savings; simplified architecture, management, deployment, and usability by moving to JBoss Enterprise Middleware; increased performance, speed of deployment, flexibility, reliability, access to support, and control of the infrastructure; improved regulation and security; streamlined processes; reduced failovers and development lifecycles
Pull Quote: “We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions.”
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Carved Out Costs Company: Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social (ANSES)
Industry: Government
Geography: Argentina
Business Challenge: Argentina’s ANSES needed a way for non-IT users to create, modify, prioritize, and manage the business rules that keep the agency’s IT systems current with ever-changing laws, judicial decisions, and court judgments governing the country’s social security program
Solution: ANSES chose JBoss Enterprise Middleware to build its Business Rules Generation Assistant (or APRN, for the Spanish equivalent acronym) for facilitating rules management between the transactional systems and operational and historical data sources
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Seam Framework, JBoss Rules, JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS), JBoss Data Services Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,IBM DB2, SQL Server, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris 10
Hardware: IBM System z mainframe; Sun M9000 ; 250 industry-standard x86 servers
Benefits: By using JBoss Enterprise Middleware for authoring, organizing, prioritizing, and simulating rules between the transactional systems and operational and historical data sources, ANSES was able to empower its business users and institutionalize organizational knowledge to ensure consistent enforcement of laws and rules. With more than 50 applications in production, ANSES is creating initiatives to support its business with open architectures, moving away from closed legacy systems that cost yearly more than two million dollars to operate.
Business Challenge: Required a management and monitoring solution to ensure www.travelchannel.com visitors have positive experiences with no downtime or viewing difficulties,
especially during business-critical events
Solution: With Red Hat Consulting and Amentra, a Red Hat company, Travel Channel implemented JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, to increase visibility and availability, and improve the risk management of its Web applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, Amentra Consulting
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers
Benefits: Increased visibility to mitigate performance issues; Enhanced risk management and capacity planning; Increased throughput to servers 20-fold by increasing memory usage; Gained the ability to test the website's refresh load, memory leaks, and performance issues during business-critical live events; Increased application availability; Gained knowledge through Red Hat Consulting and Red Hat's Amentra Consulting team
“The partnership we have with Red Hat is not based on dollars, it is based on the technology and the people who are committed to our success. Red Hat takes the burden of hardening, testing, and supporting the technology, allowing us more time to satisfy the problem rather than playing with the symptoms.”
- Richard Hood, senior manager IT operations, Travel Channel
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem
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Company: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Industry: Financial services
Geography: Columbus, OH
Business Challenge: Nationwide needed a cost-effective and highly-available architecture that would scale to enable the company's rapid growth. The platform also needed to maintain Nationwide’s high customer satisfaction standards while improving availability, reducing infrastructure costs, and decreasing management complexity for business-critical applications used by Nationwide agents.
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DBMS
Benefits: Nationwide was able to reduce the total time it takes to restart server clusters by 35 percent, and achieve faster time to deployment and problem resolution by identifying and fixing two long-term bugs in its architecture that had affected scale and memory utilization, saving hundreds of hours of IT time.
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives Customer: State of Tennessee: Office for Information Resources (OIR)
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Implement a cost-effective, flexible middleware software, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, resulting in lower costs, increased performance and scaling for growth
Migration Path: Proprietary middleware software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Consulting,
Red Hat Training
Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent support Download case study PDF
2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Optimized Systems
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Customer: Lifespring Hospitals Private Limited
Industry: Healthcare Services
Geography: Pan India
Business Challenge: To design a reliable, scalable, high-performance, flexible, and cost-effective IT infrastructure to handle the rapid growth of the organization and to provide quality and affordable healthcare to its customer
Solution: LifeSpring chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and a
number of Red Hat certified, enterprise-class, open source software solutions to
build its entire IT infrastructure
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Standard and Advanced Platform, included integrated virtualization,
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Directory Server, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Open Source Trouble Ticketing System OTRS, Elastix 2.0, Alfresco Community Edition, Moodle 1.8.12, and Zabbix version 1.8
Hardware: Sun X4140 with dual 64-bit Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and Hitachi AMS2100 iSCSI storage
Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs,
simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance,
gained higher customer satisfaction
“Red Hat, along with enterprise-class open source solutions from its certified ISV partners, helped us leverage our IT resources to strategically build the right platform for tomorrow.”
–Sujeet Kumar, manager, IT, LifeSpring
Business Challenge: To design reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective IT systems with substantial longevity
Solution: Migrated highly critical applications and databases to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to increase flexibility and performance while reducing costs
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including integrated virtualization, clustering and file system technologies, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers from HP and IBM
Benefits: Increased flexibility decreased IT costs, increased scalability and performance
“Adoption of Red Hat and open standards has enabled us to mitigate the risk of proprietary lock-in and has led to cost reduction and improved interoperability.”
-Mr. Bhaskar Jutti, chief information officer, SBI Life Insurance.
"We have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for mission critical Applications and have been satisfied users of the product. Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in implementing the applications in this environment has encouraged us to extend this environment for other applications”
-Mani RVS, Head – Information Systems Group, SBI Life Insurance
Benefits: Cut development costs in half, reduced development time, increased employee productivity, and achieved greater stability
“I put my job on the line that JBoss would work, and I’ve actually benefited from that, given how many advantages we’ve gained from it. We’ve now done more than a dozen code releases based on JBoss and I’m very satisfied with my decision.”
–Gary Smith, manager of application development, Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company
Business Challenge: To replace its end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that facilitates lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance
Migration Path: HP Alpha Tru64 UNIX servers to JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers
Solution: Australian energy company reduced costs by more than $1 million by migrating systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and web applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, WebSCM web-based outage management application, Red Hat Training
Hardware: 50 Intel Xeon processor-based HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Benefits: Reduced hardware costs by approximately $1 million, reduced licensing costs by approximately $300,000, and achieved 100 percent availability over 12 months
“Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux saved SPARQ Solutions $300,000 on licensing costs for its outage management system, and contributed to a savings of $1 million that was related to the purchase of commodity based servers.”
Italian Bank Selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware to Increase the Performance and Reliability of its IT Infrastructure
Milan, Italy – March 11, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that FinecoBank, a specialist in online banking and financial services, has selected Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, to further improve the efficiency of its web applications and to streamline the provisioning and management of its systems.
With more than 878,000 customers and €30 billion in collections, FinecoBank is committed to providing integrated online financial services and offering efficient, secure, transparent and high-quality banking solutions. The growing needs of FinecoBank’s customers have led to a steady increase in the number and complexity of daily transactions. The bank has chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware to extend its technology platform and effectively address its growing demand.
Business Challenge: Replacing end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that would facilitate lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance
Migration Path: From Sun Solaris running Sun One Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Tru64 UNIX servers running Oracle E-Business Financials, both on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell servers. The six Solaris Sunfire V240 servers were replaced by the same number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Dell hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Hardware: 80 Dell servers, including four-node Red Hat cluster on Dell 2950s, front-ended with a load balancer
Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments and savings of approximately $200k on replaced Tru64 server licensing fees, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent local support
Dubai, U.A.E. - – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Emirates Group IT, operating under the brand name Mercator, a global provider of business technology solutions, delivering business transformation, process improvement and return on investment to more than 100 customers in over five continents, has standardized its IT operations on a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware after a three month pilot program..
In an effort to simplify its datacenter and reduce the total cost of operations for web server technologies, the Emirates Group migrated approximately 80% of its comparable servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat's middleware solution portfolio offers a certified and supported platform for other open source technologies, a critical factor for the Emirates Group when deciding to standardise on open source technologies.
Company:Brazil Federal Supreme Tribunal's Information and Technology Office (STF)
Industry: Government
Geography: Brazil
Business Challenge: Needed a service-oriented architecture that improved Brazil's Federal Supreme Tribunal's (STF) system integration process and the database and deployment governance in the STI (Technology Information of Office Secretary)
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Operations Network, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM, JBoss Rules, and Hibernate
Hardware: x86 commodity servers with Intel Xeon-Based Processors
Benefits: Reduced costs and increased agility, functionality, and flexibility with a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions
Reduced Costs By Migrating Its Web Application Platform and Building a Customer Information Portal on JBoss Enterprise Middleware
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Customer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg)
Industry: Printing & Publishing, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Geography: US, EMEA
Business Challenge: Establish a new customer specific portal to enhance its customer relationship and provide internal business units with valuable customer insight; Evaluate and deploy an application server platform for its Java-based environment
Solution: With the help of Red Hat Consulting, Heidelberg built an interactive customer portal using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle 10g database, SAP R/3, Autonomy search engine, Interwoven TeamSite 6.5 (CMS), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
Hardware: Virtualized servers and F5 Load balancer
Partner: Maris IT Consulting
Migration path: Proprietary portal platform and application server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Improved customer web presence with a central portal that increased services and information available, provided ability to use applications based on open standards in order to interact better with customers, suppliers and partners, reduced costs, gained excellent support and continuous advancements of its portal software, and reduced vendor lock-in.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: An aging and costly IT infrastructure was impeding the ability of Union Bank to scale to growth and respond agilely to changing market dynamics
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX™ on high-end RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based HP servers; Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux™, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform™, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: More than 150 Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Improved reliability and scalability, cut costs, and delivered new financial services and products to market faster
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Existing proprietary middleware platform was complex to manage, not performing and scaling as expected and expensive to maintain. The architecture team decided to investigate alternatives that could be deployed that would better meet their needs.
MIGRATION PATH: Proprietary middleware platform to JBoss Enterprise Middleware
SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: 28 bands (1 band = 32 CPUs), JBoss Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Consulting, Amentra
HARDWARE: 50 Dell servers
BENEFITS: Reduced the total cost of ownership by more than 30%, throughput gain of 3X with utilization down to 1/3rd of the current platform, overall resource utilization went from above 50% to under 10% which allowed significant room for scalability without having to acquire additional hardware.
COMPANIES: Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) and Optaros
CATEGORY: Extensive Ecosystem
INDUSTRY: Convention center management
GEOGRAPHY: Boston, MA
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Manual processes and siloed systems resulted in inefficient workflows that caused customer service to suffer.
MIGRATION PATH: From a Microsoft™ Windows - based client-server application to service oriented architecture (SOA) J2EE application based upon the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, J2EE™, Google Web Toolkit™, Apache
HARDWARE: Intel Xeon™ - based x86 servers
BENEFITS: More efficient and timely access to data and an automated streamlined workflow that improved worker productivity and customer service levels and increased revenues. Approximately 90 percent of the MCCA's day-to-day operations are run using open source technologies.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost effective centralized management solution for its 1,200 instances of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure
MIGRATION PATH: Ad hoc monitoring solutions to JBoss Operations Network
SOFTWARE:JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on 150 plus systems, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle DB, HP OpenView
HARDWARE: Intel based Dell x86 commodity servers
BENEFITS: Improved availability and reliability of applications, a monitoring solution that can manage a large number of application server instances, simplified management, enhanced management and monitoring, and reduced costs
Australian Insurance Company Saves $500,000 by Migrating from Windows and WebSphere to Red Hat Platform and JBoss Middleware Solutions, Gains Increased Flexibility, Scalability and Freedom
COMPANY:Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz)
CATEGORY: Carved Out Costs
INDUSTRY: Insurance
GEOGRAPHY: Australia
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Rebuild Allianz's IT infrastructure based on a flexible and scalable platform that could leverage new virtualisation technology to generate hardware and support savings, and reduce its underlying software and operations costs for several strategic business application projects
MIGRATION PATH: Windows and Intel-based infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 mainframe and from Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Middleware on Intel processor based HP ProLiant servers.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: IBM System z10 mainframe, HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Significant reduction in middleware software and support costs, reallocation of IT budget from software licensing to staff and resources, resolution of data centre power limitations with new capacity for growth, superior workload management and operational efficiency, reduced carbon footprint, increased flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in
COMPANIES: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Rivet Logic
CATEGORY: Optimized Systems
INDUSTRY: Publishing
GEOGRAPHY: Cambridge, Massachusetts
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: The HBP's ability to get new products to market and the quality of the customer experience at its e-commerce site were hindered by a proprietary operating system, a difficult-to-use legacy content management system (CMS), and inflexible customer-facing Web applications, which were negatively impacting the HBP's revenues and limiting growth
MIGRATION PATH: From a proprietary operating system running a proprietary legacy CMS application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running the Alfresco Content Management System
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Frameworks including JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, jBPM, Oracle Database, and Alfresco's open source Content Management System
Business Challenge: To migrate from a cost-inhibitive proprietary UNIX platform to a Linux alternative in order to reduce costs and increase performance, reliability, scalability, and agility of the systems on which its critical trading platforms handle billions of derivatives trades per year, worth more than a quadrillion in notional value
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Training
Hardware: 4,000 x86 quad-core servers
Migration Path: Sun Solaris on SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86-based servers
Benefits: Achieved reduced latency, expanded flexibility, heightened performance, ease of migration and management, and increased scalability while providing cost savings for the systems responsible for processing CME Group's millions of daily transactions
"Our technology partnership with Red Hat is key to us staying competitive in the market. We look to Red Hat for technology leadership through updates and support that help us to improve our tuning so that we can give our customers the best possible experience."
--Joe Panfil, managing director of Enterprise Technology Services at CME Group.
Business Challenge: Needed a solution to enable them to proactively monitor, track and respond in terms of bed usage and associated resources
Migration Path: Paper-based system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Alliance Partner: Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM PowerSeries 2 P6-570 virutalized server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Bed management solution improved bed turnaround, and thus staff productivity; real-time information enables staff to provide improved patient care
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, together with Y3, offered a unique solution that met our needs and exceeded our expectations."
-- Fong Yong Choi, MIS manager at MAH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware form bedrock for over 120 applications and high traffic web portal
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Industry: Publishing
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To replace inefficient, incumbent systems with a reliable and affordable standardised system
Migration Path: A number of different platforms, including Tomcat, to one standardised platform based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Hardware: x86 commodity hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including JBoss Hibernate
“We are more than happy with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Our 60-strong development team are happy with the implementation and the operation teams understand it, laying strong foundations for the future."
-- Peter Hanlon, chief technical architect, Trader Media Group
Spanish Employment Portal Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for key architecture deployment
Raleigh, NC– June 30, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.
Infojobs.net now fully leverages JBoss Application Platform 4.2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its application servers, indexing subsystem and database servers. Established ten years ago, InfoJobs.net runs a high-traffic web portal and has experienced significant growth. More than 5,500 users register their curriculum vitae through the InfoJobs.net web portal each day. With over 100,000 employment vacancies listed, Infojobs.net must meet the high-volume demand required by its users. Because of Red Hat's significant value and fast run-times the IT department at InfoJobs.net migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for all its environments and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for its web and satellite servers.
Business Challenge: Provide an alternative channel for taxi booking to alleviate phone call booking overload during peak periods
Solution: Short Message Service (SMS) booking system developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam
Benefits: Allows customers to book a taxi anytime, anywhere using SMS in just 30 seconds, which means less waiting time for customers and more booking jobs for cab drivers
Business Challenge: Enabling a rapidly growing, high-volume, 24x7 business, through the creation of an agile and highly productive development environment for building and running mission-critical applications.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Migration Path: From many database centric Windows platform components towards a SOA enterprise architecture providing service orchestration, platform independence and loose coupling of coarse-grained application modules. The latter allows for an evolutionary approach to re-platforming of a very large enterprise system without a large up-front cost and significant business risk.
Benefits: A highly productive, flexible and robust application development environment that enables MedQuist to proficiently produce innovative functionality for customer-facing solutions and to quickly take advantage of newly acquired applications by efficiently integrating them into its DocQment Enterprise Platform.
“Our applications are mission critical and absolutely need to be available 24x7. Red Hat’s JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products just work, enabling us to focus on building industry-leading software, which in turn helps our customers reduce their costs and improve patient care.”
– Dan Garnett, Vice President of Product Development, MedQuist.
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Company: Sensei, Inc.
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and frameworks including; JBoss Enterprise Application Platforms, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss ESB, jBPM, Hibernate, Cache and RichFaces; all components of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Enterprise Portal Platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pentaho Business Intelligence, MySQL, and Alfresco.
Migration Path: Open source middleware projects from JBoss.org to JBoss Enterprise Middleware Solutions and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Benefits: Lowered infrastructure and development costs; more flexibility when deploying applications; greater scalability; enhanced standards and support.
"With a proprietary solution, trying to grow our product line would be painful, both in terms of man-hours and integrating additional software. But with the cost-effectiveness of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we are able to reallocate resources to scale our I.T. infrastructure.”
-Tim Dion, Chief Information Officer, Sensei Inc.
Business Challenge: Roll out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs. Build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that will position ETS for evolution into cloud models.
Migration Path: Vertically scalable platform to commodity software and hardware platform and proprietary application server technology to Open source technology
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel x86 systems
Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable, secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly.
With Red Hat products, ETS achieves the following benefits (metrics are based on the current server-hardware and OS support service cost at ETS:
Cost savings (approximately 40 percent)
Improved efficiency (approximately 30 percent)
Improved technology management and standardization
Improved leverage of development resources
Better positioned for adoption of cloud computing and virtualization technologies
“We performed extensive in-house performance testing, talked to industry analysts and considered all other aspects of the operating system and application server, including the quality of support, market share and the software and hardware ecosystem. Once we took all these things into consideration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss from Red Hat with support subscription were the obvious choice at that time.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS
Business Challenge: Banka Koper chose to build its new online banking solution, Banka IN, on Red Hat’s open source platform to avoid vendor lock-in, enable in-house innovation, and because the Red Hat solution offered easy integration, greater efficiency, and better performance.
Migration Path: Proprietary Platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3, including JBoss Seam, Alfresco Content Management System, and IBM DB2.
Hardware: HP BladeSystem
Benefits: Reduced operational costs, and enabled easy integration, faster development time, and in-house innovation
“Red Hat’s open source platform is the right solution for Banka Koper. It is in line with our business strategy to become independent of any technology platform and allows us to develop our own solutions and stay at the forefront of technology innovation,”
-Mojca Plahuta, director of Information Technology Division, Banka Koper
Business Challenge: To develop and deploy functionally rich Web applications using a standards-based platform supported by a single vendor for both home office and field use
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Migration Path: HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Benefits: Improve time to market of mission-critical applications. Increase staff productivity and efficiency using JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Higher-quality applications.
“JBoss has been a great fit for solving our primary business and technical challenges. We’ve accelerated the process of getting developers trained and up to speed. We’ve managed to get our arms around a vast set of web technologies by limiting our scope while providing our business users with the applications they need to be successful.”
-Alan Flowers, manager of the Java-Web-Integration Services team at Sherwin-Williams
BBP develops financial messaging applications that are offered to financial institutions on an in-house or service bureau basis for SWIFT, SIC, and other financial networks. BBP guarantees continuous interbank connection availability and 24x7 access to its IGTplus middleware. Given the sensitivity of the application and the underlying data, BBP required an application infrastructure that could meet its stringent requirements for security and availability. BBP chose Red Hat and Ingres technologies due to comprehensive functionality provided by the individual products as well as the fact that the products were pre-integrated, fully certified, tested, and tuned for performance.
This solution was also chosen because both Ingres and Red Hat are well known for providing 24x7 support and maintenance to enterprises around the world. Cost was an important factor as well. Deployed since 2003, the application provides software and services to hundreds of banks throughout Europe as well as other countries including the United States.
Rivet Logic Helps New Gravity Venture Deploy the Application on Alfresco, JBoss, Ingres, and Red Hat
SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS
As Facebook seeks to expand beyond purely social networking, New Gravity Ventures enters the market with ConnectedWeddings.com, a Facebook application that offers an innovative and easier way to plan weddings. The new application enables couples anywhere to use Facebook, an iPhone or the Web to manage planning tasks and create a customized, professional looking wedding page-all for free.
The two most important criteria for the Facebook application were scalability and the ability to derive optimal value from the content and present it to consumers in unique ways. New Gravity Ventures also required a solution that would empower end-users with the tools they need to fully take advantage of the application's social networking capability.
Rivet Logic chose Alfresco as the content management platform for ConnectedWeddings.com because of its ability to support content-rich applications. Rivet Logic deployed a solution based on an open source infrastructure stack that included the Alfresco content management platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and the Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Geography: Hong Kong
Business Challenge: Rapid business growth and the expansion of its service portfolio made it necessary to replace website with an efficient financial information portal, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows and UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP with integrated virtualization
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate
Hardware: Intel Xeon based servers
Services: Red Hat Consulting
Benefits: High-performance, flexible IT infrastructure delivered through the integrated virtualization technology in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 50-70% Reduction in software and hardware costs
“Previously, in the financial services industry, companies were forced to rely on proprietary vendors. We are using Red Hat because of our confidence in the company to meet our very high levels of availability, performance and security that are essential in our business. The use of Red Hat and JBoss has enabled us to save approximately 50-70% overall on the entire project costs and even more in annual costs.”
-Philip Choi, Head of Technology for Quam Limited
RALEIGH, NC - April 28, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Brazilian National Institute of Educational Research and Studies (Inep), has migrated its applications to a full suite of JBoss Enterprise Middleware technology, including the JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms. Since beginning its migration to JBoss solutions, Inep has increased scalability, performance and stability for its mission-critical applications.
Inep, a Federal Institution linked to the Education Ministry of Brazil (MEC), manages the data and results from educational studies, research and evaluations related to the Brazilian Educational System. It is also responsible for the National High School Brazilian Exam (ENEM), which had over one million online registrations in 2008. After regularly encountering IT issues that required reconfiguring Inep's system, the organization decided that the performance and scalability of its complex IT architecture must be increased to better execute daily tasks.
Company: North American Non-profit Medical Research Organization; Vizuri, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner
Industry: Healthcare: Biomedical Research and science education
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Aggregate critical information, reduce operational costs, and increase performance to internal and external users, and increase availability of research to a wider audience, through the use of a foundational portal platform.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (32-cpu), JBoss Rules (32-cpu), JBoss jBPM (32-cpu), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Alfresco ECM, Alfresco WCM
Benefits: The Red Hat and Vizuri partnership helped a non-profit medical research organization complete a side-by-side evaluation and selection process that compared the solution benefits of open source software to proprietary software. Through customer experiences, JBoss and Vizuri were able to outline to the customer that the cost savings provided by the selecting an open source solution would allow the customer to leverage Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
Business Challenge: Improving the efficiency of its demand-response network that helps manage energy supply and demand
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Benefits: Streamlined the complex workflows involved in aligning the needs of utilities/grid operators to avoid blackouts during peak energy-consumption times and the desire of energy users to generate revenues through better managing their energy use.
“It would be very difficult for us to compete successfully without jBPM. We could not deliver our solutions nearly as efficiently and cost-effectively in this extremely aggressive market without it.”
–Ed Kusnitz, lead platform engineer, EnerNOC
Online bank selects JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for web applications
MILAN, ITALY, 10 February 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IWBank, an organization focused on financial services and online banking, has selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and the JBoss Operations Network to improve the efficiency of its web-banking applications.
IWBank is committed to providing integrated online financial services that guarantee high efficiency, safety and transparency levels, in addition to offering competitive terms and excellent service to its customers. In late 2008, IWBank decided to extend its collaboration with Red Hat, which provides the bank with open source solutions, by adopting the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop its web applications.
Business Challenge: Transition from inflexible and costly proprietary middleware software and hardware to JBoss Enterprise Middleware to cut costs while speeding new broadband/VoIP products to market
Benefits: Reduce costs by more than $500,000 annually in hardware and software support; enabled cost-effective modernization of service-oriented architecture (SOA); improved performance of existing systems; reduced time-to-market of new products.
“In the current challenging economic situation, it is all the more important for Covad to retain its edge in automated Operations Support Systems while reducing the software support costs. We needed to modernize our SOA and roll out new products, all the while doing a new software rollout every six weeks and maintaining 99.9% uptime. That’s why we love JBOSS – it allows us to do more with less.”
- Unmesh Kulkarni, Director of Software Architecture and Delivery, Covad Communications Group, Inc.
Benefits: Increased sales by offering a more flexible and customized service; Boosted customer satisfaction by improving provisioning and billing procedures; streamlined internal processes and cut operational costs through integrating customer relationship management, business process management, and accounting systems.
“With an award-winning organization like Red Hat behind us, and world-class technology like JBoss to leverage for our solutions, we are primed for success,” said Matt Van Bergan, chief technology officer, CITYTECH.
“CITYTECH listens to my needs, and is very creative about coming back with ideas, they speak in terms that make me confident they understand my business, and are completely focused on making Advent successful.” – Mike Swimelar, president, Advent Conferencing
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Challenge: To develop a technology solution on a stable, secure, and affordable platform for an Internet-based tax return project.
Migration Path: From proprietary software to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and from JBoss Application Server 2.4 to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Software: Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Hardware: HP blades with dual-core AMD processors and quad-core Intel processors on a 64-bit architecture
Benefits: To promote and enable Internet-based tax return filing by taxpayers to reduce processing times and avoid increasing the customer service infrastructure at its own counters and bank tellers.
SRI's experience with open source has been successful. The organization has achieved an efficient, reliable, scalable and affordable platform. The access to Red Hat’s source code has allowed the company to customize the functionality of the products in terms of business needs. The success achieved with Red Hat solutions has encouraged the organization to explore open source solutions for other areas of the business.
Business Challenge:
To increase the speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the business’ high-performance grid computing environment, which now records more than one trillion transactions per month
Migration Path: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network
Hardware: x86 Servers
Benefits: Standardizing its grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux helped Acxiom achieve 100-fold performance gains and unmatched scalability while also reducing costs and increasing flexibility
Bank PHB improves flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat solutions
Dubai, GITEX – October 23, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Bank PHB, one of Nigeria’s top ten banks, has migrated its core mission-critical banking applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. Bank PHB migrated to Red Hat’s open source solutions to achieve the next step in scalability, performance and the ability to handle heavy workloads and achieve cost reduction more effectively than with other proprietary software platforms.
Challenge: Build a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for a government client that could be leveraged and reused for other client engagements
Migration Path: Transitioned a custom coded, proprietary-based solution to a a hybrid COTS/GOTS/Open-Source application that leveraged a significant portion of the Red Hat product portfolio.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform including JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Xen virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS.
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Hardware: Eight Dell 2950 servers with 32 gigabytes of memory
Benefits: Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications
“We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client's budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice.”
– Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Geography: Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia
Business Challenge: Rebuild the All Homes Pty Ltd technology platform in order to modernise its website, ensuring an optimal user experience and equipping the site with support for future expansion plans
Migration Path: Outdated, costly software and hardware solutions to enterprise Linux servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Hibernate Framework
Solution:
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM xSeries x3550 and x3560 servers
Benefits: Experienced increased performance, reliability, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
Company: The Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX)
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Geography: Reston, Virginia
Opportunity: Create an electronic information exchange for all stakeholders involved in getting new drugs to market – from research and development, to clinical trials, to government approval
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss jBPM Framework, Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and TriCipher
Benefits: Will enable previously unmatched levels of collaboration among pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and health care providers to make the drug development, testing, and approval process more secure and efficient while reducing costs and safeguarding the safety of the end consumer
Italian organization utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to maintain mission-critical systems for regional Chambers of Commerce
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RALEIGH, NC – July 16, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoCamere, an organization responsible for managing the IT systems that connect and secure over 100 Italian Chambers of Commerce, relies on Red Hat and JBoss solutions for flexibility, reliability and ease of use for its mission-critical systems.
InfoCamere’s IT infrastructure, covering all 300 local offices, must ensure that its users, including administrations, companies and individuals, have immediate access to documents, information and legal data stored in the Chambers’ archives. When InfoCamere began developing its first Internet platform in 2000, it utilized Red Hat Linux 7.2 in both testing and production environments. After demonstrating high levels of reliability, the ability to succeed in critical production environments and flexibility with an extensive application ecosystem, InfoCamere decided to expand its use of Red Hat solutions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm with more than 18,000 employees serving government clients from more than 80 offices and has been recognized by major publications as a best place to work. Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps government clients solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.
Company: Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: New York
Opportunity: Build an utterly reliable, high-performance portal using open source to speed application development while reducing costs
Migration Path: Proprietary application server and portal solutions to JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Rules Framework. Databases: Sybase SQL (transactional), Sybase IQ (data warehousing for production environment), Microsoft SQL (training data), Alfresco Software for enterprise content management (ECM).
Operating System: Windows 2000
Hardware: Intel dual-core Intel Xeon HP servers
Benefits: Established a reliable platform with no unplanned downtime, sped time-to-market by cutting application development time in half, dramatically improved application performance, and saved $300,000 in licensing and hardware costs
Daiwa Trusts JBoss:“If our portal were to go down today, it would be catastrophic. JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal platforms have been extremely reliable and stable. JBoss is a worry-free solution that helps us sleep better at night.” —Steve Dunstan, Enterprise Systems Architect and Vice President, Information Technology, Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Raleigh NC – February 13, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that The Decurion Corporation, a real estate and movie exhibition corporation, has achieved success with a full suite of Red Hat solutions. Since implementing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System for Decurion's ArcLight Cinemas website, the company has experienced enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
SESCO Enterprises builds new internal infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Raleigh, NC — October 15, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that SESCO Enterprises, a leading electricity and natural gas trading company, has deployed Red Hat solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to facilitate the creation of a high-performance infrastructure to support its rapid database growth. The company has since experienced cost-savings, flexiblity and heightened performance and reliability.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Application Server create ideal combination for SAP and other business-critical applications
RALEIGH, NC — August 14, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swisscom IT Services, a subsidiary of the biggest Swiss telecommunications provider, is relying on the full suite of Red Hat solutions for its standardized Linux infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, JBoss Enterprise Platform and additional Red Hat technologies are currently used by Swisscom IT Services as the platform for its "Simply Managed Linux" (SIMLUX) infrastructure, the highly flexible and effective infrastructure for the company's data centres. Using SIMLUX, Swisscom supplies outsourcing services to more than 50 customers.
Company benefits from central, secure management through Red Hat Network and plans to expand open source deployment with JBoss.
RALEIGH, NC - January 29, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Union Bank of California, one of the 25 largest banks in the United States, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from AIX to realize significant performance gains as well as centralized, secure management through Red Hat Network. Union Bank is also piloting JBoss as well as MySQL and plans to make Red Hat's complete solution stack part of its core technology direction.
deRemate.com implements Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for cost savings, reliability and scalability
Raleigh NC – March 25, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that deRemate.com, a leading online trade community with presence in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, has migrated to Red Hat and JBoss solutions to create an in-house-controlled portal to enable the payment of purchases completed through the company's online retail sites throughout the region. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Dell PowerEdge hardware, the company has achieved cost savings, reliability, ease of implementation and scalability.
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Industry: Real Estate and Movie Exhibition Corporation
Challenge: With a growing online customer base, Decurion's ArcLightCenmas.com looked to fix issues with its ticket sales website, previously based on Microsoft's .NET framework.
Migration Path: .NET framework to JBoss Enterprise Applciation Platform
Benefits: Enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Geography: Los Angeles, CA
"JBoss Enterprise Middleware helps us accelerate solution delivery because it provides the beneficial features associated with open source solutions, combined with easy deployment and impressive customer service and support." Brad Bahmanpour, Enterprise Systems Architect at Decurion
Migration Path: Pearl-based environment to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Faster development, greater scalability and “Ignited Performance”
“We have a very smart, fast-moving team and had set very aggressive deadlines for
taking our designs and re-factoring them in JBoss. “Instructor-led or classroom training wasn’t going to work. We needed someone who had detailed
knowledge of the entire platform, as well as of the specific applications and who could
go shoulder-to-shoulder as we tore into the code.”
- Frank Gartland, Vice President, Solution Strategy and Development, Incentive Logic.
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Opportunity: The aim was to free CAMIF from overly-complex nested systems and come up with a more efficient information system which was structured
by business activity, thus enabling more transparent and targeted intervention.
Solution: CAMIF has built its technical base using Open Source components and can now offer business applications as both development frameworks and cross-functional services. Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Rules, JBoss Messaging, JBoss Eclipse IDE
Benefits: There are currently three application groups that benefit from the new architecture, which now integrates open source solutions, including several modules from the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Project summary: The CAMIF Group, a multi-specialist distributor and the third largest French mail-order company, offers a range that extends from household appliances and personal equipment to supplying local authorities and from home furnishings to fine foods, without forgetting financial products. In 2003, the company took the step of progressively decommissioning their twenty-year-old HP3000 servers and completely revising the software architecture that was in place.
Category: Increased ROI Winner: Alintec Industry: Tech and Government Geography: Milan, Italy
Overview
Alintec (www.alintec.it) (previously Politecnico Innovazione), a non-profit consortium promoting technological innovation within SMEs and public institutions and technology transfer between academia and industry in Europe, was selected following the high return on investment (ROI) it achieved after the implementation of multiple JBoss technologies within its Internet-based Library Management System (LMS) for the Province of Bergamo. The JBoss-based solution increased library loan rates by more than 25 percent and the frequency of inter-library loans by over 30 percent. Overall, it has positively impacted the end-user experience in terms of speed and ease-of-use.
Overview Rivet Logic, a provider of professional services focused on open source solutions, and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses, were selected for their use of Alfresco's content management platform in support of the upgrade of Kaplan's online presence from a legacy system to a JBoss-centric solution. The teams employed JBoss Seam (and Facelets), JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and jBPM to create a next-generation platform for the www.kaptest.com site that can deliver personalized applications and dynamic, targeted content. The results include a 26x performance improvement over the legacy content authoring/delivery system, much faster page load times and a "fresher" web presence for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
Submitted by: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect
Industry: Financial services
Geography: New York, NY
Overview
Migration of 120 separate applications running to JBoss Portal using a series of unified templates. This enabled rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and hundreds of thousand of dollars in cost-savings.
Category: Migration Winner: Sakonnet Submitted by: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet Industry: Oil and Gas Geography: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro
Overview
Used JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to develop a scalable, performance-driving, well-supported solution that provided ease-of-use, cost savings, and transparency for Sakonnet’s energy-trading solutions. With JBoss Application Server, Sakonnet discovered a solution that combined low-cost, quality software and reliable support to fit into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy of frequent application upgrades and top-notch support.
Business Challenge: Design a new disaster-recovery system that would ensure seamless business continuity for the hospital; determine a solution to aid in delivering high-performance, secure, cost-effective systems to ensure optimized patient care; identify a solution to enable internal hosting and support for the growing number of external websites
Migration Path: IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network Satellite; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting; MySQL, Oracle, Caché, FoxPro, and Postgres databases; proprietary applications for reporting and management of patient data and for mail, security, and virus protection
Hardware: HP and IBM servers
Benefits: Streamlined disaster recovery and gained higher system availability and resource efficiencies that translate into better patient care; achieved 35 percent growth in its datacenter without needing to expand its hardware footprint or internal resources through its use of virtualization; gained expertise through the knowledge transfer resulting from virtualization and clustering-focused engagements with Red Hat Consulting
“Our first priority is security and our second is performance. When you can get security and performance needs met, and it costs less than the alternative, you go for it. That's the quadrant that Red Hat Enterprise Linux plays in.” -- Barbara Schleider, director of Technology Services, Management Information Systems (MIS) at Florida Hospital
Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies Winner:Big Lots Submitted by: Big Lots Application Architecture Team Industry: Retail Geography: Columbus, OH
Overview
Big Lots used the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam to develop and implement an interactive Inventory Management System usable across a variety of devices (Point-of-Sale, mobile handheld, and back-office server) in 705 retail stores across the US (rollout to its fleet of approximately 1,350 stores will complete in 2008). The Inventory Management System is part of a multi-year store technology refresh project. Thus far, the changes have resulted in increased productivity at the front end, improved customer experience, and improved ability to respond to future business initiatives.
Industry: Finance Geography: Lugano, Switzerland Opportunity: Cornèr Bank needed a cost efficient and innovative solution to address the mobile needs of credit cards customers. Software: JBoss Application Server, JMS
“The mobile services offered by Cornèr Bank are state-of-the-art. No other credit card institute in Switzerland can claim such advanced services for its cardholders. Thank to the JBoss AS application server, the SW development and integration of those new services has proven to be highly efficient.”
-Massimo Calanchini, Cornèr Banca SA, IT Project Manager
Selected by the community as the 2006 JBoss Innovator of the Year
Category: Service Orientated Architecture
Winner:RLPTechnologies
Submitted by: RLPTechnologies Team (see below)
Industry: Bio Engineering
Geography: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Overview
Selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk’s data for the automotive industry.
Category: Clustering Winner: J. Craig Venter Institute Submitted by: Pete Davies, Indresh Singh, Tom Dolafi, Chris Lemieux, Sean Murphy, Adam Resnick, Angelo Trivelli, Bryan Yu, and Saul Kravitz Industry: Bio Engineering Geography: Rockville, MD
Overview
Selected for use of JBoss messaging and clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across a 2 node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers (scaling to 8 nodes to process large collections of traces) while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs.
Selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss AS that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40% and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU in yearly maintenance costs.
Start-up shortens time-to-market, gains industry recognition Industry: Sales 2.0
Geography: Pittsburgh, PA
Opportunity: Build a high-availability Saas solution that could support product evolution, a growing subscriber base, and integration with multiple technologies
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Oracle 10g RAC cluster solution
Applications: Landslide (a Sales Workstyle Management Solution)
Benefits: Expedited time-to-market, optimized resources to improved product development, and delivered a highly secure, reliable solution that's recognized by the industry
Opportunity: To replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department.
Migration Path: Proprietary software and hardware, including Hewlett Packard PA-RISC chip-architecture, HP-UX Unix operating system, Oracle database and BEA WebLogic Server, to open source solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution:
Hardware: HP Blade System C-class servers with 300 AMD Opteron Dual Core CPUs
Operating System Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Benefits: Experienced reduced TCO, increased reliability, enhanced performance, freedom from vendor lock-in, and expects estimated cost savings of approximately €20 million Euros over the next five years
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Industry: Transportation Geography: Sweden Opportunity: Build a new development platform to rapidly deliver integrated IT projects across the business Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (JBoss AS 4.2, ESB 4.2, JBoss Messaging 1.4), EnterpriseDB Hardware: 2 IBM xSeries 346 servers Benefits: Increased time-to-market of services for customers, increased ROI and interest in rail travel, eliminated licensing costs for the platform, integrated IT systems, and avoided vendor lock-in
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BACKGROUND
Swedish Railways (SJ AB), the national railway operator in Sweden, travels between 350 stations and carries 100,000 passengers per day. The company maintains approximately 3,500 employees and boasts a yearly revenue of 1.3 billion dollars.
OPPORTUNITY
In May 2006, SJ AB recognized the need to upgrade its internal software delivery system in order to provide a shared platform for all of its IT systems. The integration of the IT systems is essential for SJ AB as it uses a diverse range of applications relevant to human resources, sales, and other departments. Each applications needs to be accessed across a range of interfaces from PCs to PDAs. A new department called the Integration Competence Centre (ICC) was established within SJ AB with assistance from Redpill. The ICC is responsible of establishing the Integration platform and deliver service based integration solutions and new service according to SJ AB requirements.
Selected for their use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS to build a consumer-directed healthcare solution that was first-to-market, yielding immediate customer traction, increased market visibility, thus reflective of corporate leadership and success.
Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates
Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers
Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system
Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business
Facilitated the creation of a high-performance infrastructure that supports rapid database growth; flexible application development and high levels of Red Hat support translate into huge cost-savings and a competitive advantage
Challenge: SNS Bank's IT systems handle 500,000 daily transactions produced by various applications on 3,300 workstations. The bank's front-end system was reaching its technical and economical limit and was reducing the opportunity for innovation and scalability within the organization. The SNS IT team, responsible for cost savings, looked for a solution that was flexible, stable, and scalable.
Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server Hardware: 8 IBM X-series servers
Benefits:
SNS Bank was able to rapidly deploy its new system onto 3,300 workstations in nine months.
The bank experienced reduced licensing costs and overall cost savings after migrating to JBoss solutions.SNS Bank also experienced a reduction in hardware demands following the implementation of its new system.
Increased stability and reliability of the organization's production platform was enjoyed following its migration.
Opportunity: Swisscom IT Services needed to create a standardised and stable operating system environment to host outsourced services for its customers. The company also wanted to simplify the provisioning and allocation of new servers by creating an automated staging infrastructure.
Priceline.com looks toward the future with virtualization
Industry:Travel services Geography:United States Opportunity: Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company's predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
Solution: Today, Priceline.com has about half of the infrastructure converted over to a mixture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Hardware: Sun V20z servers with AMD Opteron, HP ProLiant DL385 servers with AMD Opteron, and HP ProLiant DL380 with Intel Xeon.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Benefits: The combination of Red Hat and JBoss has been a win-win for Priceline.com. Priceline.com's application availability runs >99.97 percent and hits 100 percent for most quarters. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company has realized reduced security patching requirements than with some proprietary application servers. Through a series of initiatives, like the company's JBoss implementation, Priceline.com IT has been successful in proportionally reducing its relevant domestic operational IT budgets for this type of infrastructure, despite increases in product complexity and product unit volumes. Forward-looking, Xen support and virtualization technologies are extremely attractive to Priceline.com. The company has been testing Xen in its development environments to reduce hardware costs and lower TCO.
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
Challenge: CitiStreet faced increasing volume on its Web applications, both from an expanding client base and increased utilization of the Web by the plan participants they service. An earlier migration-from a C-based solution to Enterprise Java-had been successful but now required ongoing improvement. CitiStreet needed to future-proof its Web infrastructure and stay on budget.
Benefits: Significantly increased hardware resources without incurring any software licensing costs. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional cost savings per year with subscriptions to Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network. Improved performance and user experience on CitiStreet website. A resilient, highly-available, secure infrastructure to support long-term business growth. High-quality and responsive 24x7x365 support from knowledgeable, technical staff.
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